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Might have been a good point if we’d held on last week, feels slightly disappointing.

I sense we’re not going to score today. Hope we don’t concede.

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If there’s one consistent frustration from some of our fan base it’s the “you’d have taken this at the start of the year / after the last three years” argument. It smacks of lack of ambition and it seriously does my head in! I listened to Sproson shut down Blakeman on Radio Joke when he used the ‘you’d have taken this...’ line and I agree wholeheartedly with him. The Smurf years have gone, consigned to history. We are where we are, to coin a phrase, so live with the here and nows. We’ve been beating top teams home and away, so we should be expected to beat bottom half Scunny at home, and anything less than that will and should be met with disappointment in my opinion.

Just like at every other club.

Don’t think anyone is saying that. But if we’d made a third change near the end, take a bit of sting out the game and allow the players to re-set, it might just have seen us other the line.

Glass half full me:- 1. Not lost in a game with difficult conditions, getting a point against a side that earlier in the season ripped us apart (as with Walsall). 2. Back in the playoffs. 3. At least one of their goals was a very bad mistake that you wouldn’t expect to be repeated. Glass half empty me:- 1. Yet more points dropped from winning position. If we’d have secured just a quarter of those points we’d be in the automatic places. 2. Yet another goalkeeping error. 3. Second successive week where we’ve been good-ish first half, but awful season half. 4. Subs once again too long in coming. Their first equaliser was about 10 mins in the making because nothing was sticking up top and we could barely get out of our half despite having the wind. Plus Manny looked completely lost and clearly isn’t fit, so why not use Taylor? We only made of the three changes anyway, despite a strong bench. 5. Second week in a row Monty had a really poor game. Clark must come in at left-back next week. Really, really frustrating because it is simply about game management which, let’s face it, is non-existent. Did we have a yellow card today? If we win at Cheltenham then today with look like a decent point, but I don’t see it based on how we seem to panic now when we go on front. And yes, I know, at the start of the season.....blah blah

It was coming

Under a lot of pressure here!!

Rode our luck there!

And the 30 goes off injured!!!

These are coming back into this. We look a bit vulnerable to their breaks. The No 30 and 45 are danger men.

I’d be tempted stick with the same team tbh.

I genuinely think the conditions played a part in it, because both teams were poor when shooting towards the away end. I thought that whilst we started better, we looked a bit nervous early doors, like there was a lot of expectancy from a big following and not much margin for error if we want to reach the playoffs.

Terrible goals to concede really, the 2nd worse than the 1st because of errors in both full back positions. But the save.....